Six months from the deadline for issuing interoperable smart federal ID cards, standards and specifications are in place. Now the heavy lifting is about to begin.
Rep. Tom Davis, said he will work with the House Appropriations Committee to both cut funding for the Treasury Department's controversial standalone Treasury Communications Enterprise solicitation and improve the government's information security law.
The General Services Administration will release a solicitation in about a month for systems integrators to prepare packaged goods and services to create a federal employee identification card using smart-card technology.
Lockheed Martin Corp. won a $3.6 million contract from the Military Entrance Processing Command for fingerprinting technology that enables background checks of prospective military recruits.
Controversy over which type of radio frequency identification chip should be used in border-crossing cards has become a divisive issue for industry and government officials.
Public-key infrastructure is a pretty good way to authenticate users, sign documents electronically and secure data. But a pair of experts believe that using PKI often is harder than it needs to be.
With technology rapidly outpacing policy, major improvements are needed at the state level to better protect sensitive criminal and civil justice information, according to the National Governors Association's Center for Best Practices.
Several of the largest IT systems integrators in the United States are taking on one of the biggest federal technology projects of the decade: creating Secure Border Initiative-Net, an electronic surveillance system that will cover the U.S. -Mexico border?all 2,000 miles of it.
Securityhunter Inc., a Baltimore company that installs and maintains electronic security countermeasures, will assess Agriculture Department facilities under a $1.8 million contract.
At least 28 states and U.S. territories are planning to open intelligence fusion centers, according to a survey of homeland security directors compiled by the National Governors Association.
The Homeland Security Department is seeking contractors for the fourth phase of the Transportation Worker Identification Credential, expected to enroll 850,000 port, dock, transit and other transportation workers.
Aimed at building wireless networks with top-secret security, a contract awarded to Harris Corp. by the National Security Agency enables the company to supply its secure wireless product to federal agencies and other approved customers.
Setting up a national IT disaster response apparatus is one topic on the agenda of the IT Sector Coordinating Council as it drafts a sector-specific plan for protecting the nation's computer networks against a terrorist attack or other disaster.
The Health and Human Services Department displays significant weaknesses in security controls for its computer systems, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office.
The recent extension of radio frequency identification testing at border crossings appears to have boosted the technology. But difficult decisions still lay ahead for the Homeland Security Department in integrating RFID applications and standards into a single document.
